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Numerical Simulation & Nonlinear Dynamics in Rotating Magnetoconvection: Chaos and Stability

This study presents a comprehensive numerical investigation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) convection in a conductive fluid subjected to a rotating magnetic field within a rectangular cavity. The model incorporates a convective flow induced by differential heating of opposing vertical walls under adiabatic conditions. The governing equations are derived based on Maxwell’s equations and the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations, with the magnetic forcing term, averaged over time under low magnetic Reynolds number conditions. A high-resolution numerical algorithm is employed to analyze the stability and transition to turbulence as the magnetic Taylor number (Ta) and Rayleigh number (Ra) increase. The results are consistent with prior experimental observations of flow destabilization at critical values of Ta. Furthermore, the study investigates the emergence of large-scale, nonstationary structures in the turbulent regime, quantifying the finite-time blow-up of solutions as a function of Pr, Ra, and Ta. Attractor formation in velocity space is examined to distinguish deterministic non-periodic solutions from fully developed turbulence. By computing over 104 parameter points, phase diagrams are constructed to illustrate regions of flow stability, deterministic chaos, and turbulence. These results offer novel insights into the interplay between electromagnetic forcing and convective instability, with potential applications in metallurgy, electrochemistry, and crystal growth processes.

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Investigating Validity of AI-Derived Stripped Gluon Amplitudes with Symbolic Computation

A new paper arrived on the ArXiv last week which has generated a lot of attention across social media: “Single-minus gluon tree amplitudes are nonzero.” Within the paper, the authors present various single-minus tree-level n-gluon stripped amplitudes before generalizing the result to arbitrary n > 2. In particular, the authors present the n = 3, 4, 5, and 6 stripped amplitudes in Eqs. 29-32:

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Understanding Smoke Point in Cooking with Wolfram

When making pancakes, the first one is always tricky. Is the oil in the pan hot enough? Or too hot? If you start too soon, that first pancake is pale and greasy instead of golden brown and toasty. Wait too long and the temperature may reach the oil’s smoke point, leaving you with a burnt pancake and smoky kitchen.
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Non-Cooperative Games with Uncertainty

This paper introduces a framework for finite non-cooperative games where each player faces a globally uncertain parameter with no common prior. Every player chooses both a mixed strategy and projects an emergent subjective prior to the uncertain parameters. We define an “Extended Equilibrium” by requiring that no player can improve her expected utility via a […]

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Most-Viewed People on Wikipedia in 2025 How Catalyst Events Imprint Social Memory

On January 15, 2026, Wikipedia turned 25, and that birthday demonstrates a simple, radical fact: a vast, volunteer-built reference work that stays free to read has become a foundational record of human knowledge and an infrastructure for how the internet answers questions, quietly propping up organic learning, search engines, voice assistants and generative AI. In 2025, one attention-economy tactic got a mainstream label: “rage bait” (the official Oxford Word of the Year 2025)—online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage. It was also a year of conflict, political upheaval and extreme weather, the kind of backdrop that turns public life into a sequence of jolts. And yet when people wanted context, not reaction, they kept choosing the same destination. The Wikimedia Foundation estimates that in 2025, people spent about 2.8 billion hours reading English Wikipedia, and the year’s most-read pages sketch a tight portrait of what pulled us hardest: politics, popular culture and loss.
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Introduction to Quantum Computing: Part 1

This book provides a concise and practical introduction to quantum computing, emphasizing an interactive, hands-on approach. It introduces and explores the essential concepts, principles and foundational quantum algorithms through guided modeling and simulation exercises. Each topic is developed computationally, allowing readers to build both intuition and technical proficiency by directly engaging with the computational mechanics of quantum systems. The approach taken here is computation first, meaning that understanding arises through the act of calculation, echoing David Mermin’s well-known slogan, “shut up and calculate.”

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Finally… a Wolfram U Course for Everyone on Partial Differential Equations!

Today, I am happy to announce a free interactive course, Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, that will help students all over the world master this important subject. This course introduces partial differential equations (PDEs) from scratch and covers the most important types and their solution methods. It covers linear and nonlinear first-order PDEs; important cases of second-order PDEs, such as the heat, wave and Laplace equations; and a few famous PDEs, such as the Maxwell, Schrödinger, Navier–Stokes and Black–Scholes equations. The course is suitable for undergraduate students with exposure to multivariable calculus and ordinary differential equations (ODEs).